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Cosmology of Nonlinear Oscillations

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The nonlinear oscillations of a scalar field are shown to have cosmological equations of state with w=p/ρw = p / \rho ranging from 1<w<1-1 < w < 1. We investigate the possibility that the dark energy is due to such oscillations.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0305096,
  title  = {Cosmology of Nonlinear Oscillations},
  author = {Stephen D. H. Hsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0305096},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, latex. References added; to appear in PLB

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